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Date Time Proposal to reauthorise QLD LNG producers to coordinate gas plant maintenance The ACCC is proposing to reauthorise Australia Pacific LNG Pty Ltd, Gladstone LNG, and the Queensland Curtis LNG Project to discuss and coordinate their maintenance schedules, maintenance providers, and maintenance techniques for another five years. The proposed reauthorisation would mean that all three applicants can coordinate when and how maintenance of their gas plants occur, and when their facilities wi...

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DAGUPAN CITY, Apr. 30 (PIA) – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has strictly banned the ‘installment only’ policy for goods and services offered on sale starting on April 23 this year.              . Natalia Dalaten, officer-in-charge Provincial Director of DTI-Pangasinan, said pursuant to the Department Administrative Order (DAO) No. 21-03, series of 2021, no person or company engaged in sale or offers sale for products and services shall impose an installment only as mod...

SunStar + April 30, 2021 THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has announced the prohibition of an “installment only” basis as an exclusive mode of payment for dealerships of either motorcycles or cars in a new department administrative order (DAO). According to Ines Cajegas, DTI-Cebu Consumer Protection Division chief, the new DTI DAO emanated from the numerous complaints nationwide against motorcycle dealers which are offering sale-by- installment only. “(Some dealers)...

Final Penalty Decision Rounds Off Long Running Air Freight Cartel Case No Escape for Price Fixing Cargo Carriers AUSTRALIA – The Australian Federal Court has approved a payment plan for airline PT Garuda Indonesia Ltd (Garuda) to pay a A19 million penalty the Court previously ordered relating to a long-running Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) action against a global price fixing cartel in the air cargo industry. In May 2019, the Federal Court ordered Garuda to pay the ...

Date Time Country Press Australia members can collectively bargain with Google and Facebook The ACCC has granted interim authorisation for Country Press Australia (CPA) members to collectively negotiate with Facebook and Google over payments to publishers for their news content that appears on the platforms. CPA is an industry body that represents the interests of independent regional and local newspapers throughout Australia. CPA currently represents 81 members and 160 regional newspapers, whi...

SunStar SunStar File Photo April 29, 2021 LAND Transportation Office (LTO) 7 Director Victor Emmanuel Caindec welcomed a recent administrative order of the Department of Trade and Industry that prohibits persons and companies selling products and services from offering an “installment only” mode of payment to consumers. Feeling “elated and vindicated to hear of this development,” he said that this serves as a lesson and warning to those “who try to take advantage of the d...

Australias anti-competitive beef with Google expands to target the Play Store Googles struggling with an image problem right now. Ever since Epic decided to pull something of a stunt with the in-app purchase systems in Fortnite, the status of both Google and Apple as the gatekeepers of the mobile app world has been called into question. Google is facing regulatory scrutiny in the US, and now it looks like Australia wants to get in on the party. Well, sort of. The Australian Competition and C...

Date Time Viterra’s Port Adelaide terminal facilities exempt from parts of Bulk Wheat Code The ACCC has today released final determinations exempting the services provided by grain handler Viterra at its Port Adelaide Inner Harbour and Outer Harbor facilities from parts of the Port Terminal Access (Bulk Wheat) Code. The ACCC also determined not to exempt Viterra’s services at its Wallaroo and Port Giles facilities. The decision means Viterra will no longer be subject to requirements not to ...

SunStar + April 22, 2021 TO ENSURE consumers’ access to various modes of payment on their purchase of products and services, the Department of Trade and Industry has issued the Department Administrative Order (DAO) 21-03 or the “Guidelines for Payments Options on the Purchase of Consumer Products and Services” which will take effect April 23, 2021. The DAO mandates all persons and companies, whether registered or unregistered, engaged in the sale or offer for sale of consumer...